Radial velocities and V-band phot. of DI Tau Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Tang S.-Y.
  2. Stahl A.G.
  3. Prato L.
  4. Schaefer G.H.
  5. Johns-Krull C.M.,Skiff B.A.
  6. Beichman C.A.
  7. Uyama T.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The stellar companion to the weak-line T Tauri star DI Tau A was first discovered by the lunar occultation technique in 1989 and was subsequently confirmed by a speckle imaging observation in 1991. It has not been detected since, despite being targeted by five different studies that used a variety of methods and spanned more than 20yr. Here, we report the serendipitous rediscovery of DI Tau B during our Young Exoplanets Spectroscopic Survey (YESS). Using radial velocity data from YESS spanning 17yr, new adaptive optics observations from Keck II, and a variety of other data from the literature, we derive a preliminary orbital solution for the system that effectively explains the detection and (almost all of the) non-detection history of DI Tau B. We estimate the dynamical masses of both components, finding that the large mass difference (q~0.17) and long orbital period (>~35yr) make the DI Tau system a noteworthy and valuable addition to studies of stellar evolution and pre-main-sequence models. With a long orbital period and a small flux ratio (f2/f1) between DI Tau A and B, additional measurements are needed for a better comparison between these observational results and pre-main-sequence models. Finally, we report an average surface magnetic field strength (\bar{B}) for DI Tau A, of ~0.55kG, which is unusually low in the context of young active stars.

Keywords
  1. multiple-stars
  2. visible-astronomy
  3. spectroscopy
  4. infrared-astronomy
  5. radial-velocity
  6. photometry
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2023ApJ...950...92T
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